Arturo Tabera Araoz

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Styles of Arturo Cardinal Tabera Araoz
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Lirbe (titluar see)

His Most Reverend Eminence Arturo Cardinal Tabera Araoz J.C.D. (29 October 1903 - 13 June 1975) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes.

Arturo Tabera Araoz was born in Barco de Ávila, Spain. He joined the Congregation of Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in May 1915. He was educated at the Claretian Seminary, and the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum "S. Apollinare" in Rome where he earned a doctorate in canon law.

[edit] Priesthood

He was ordained on December 22, 1928. He was from 1930 until 1946 a faculty member of the Theological School of Zafra, Badajoz; director of journal Ilustración del Clero, Madrid; staff member of journal Commemoratium pro religiosis, Rome; secretary of prefecture of studies of his congregation; founder of journal Vida religiosa, Rome; vice-postulator of cause of beatification of Marcelo Spinola y Maestre, Archbishop of Seville.

[edit] Episcopate

Pope Pius XII appointed him titular bishop of Lirbe and appointed him apostolic administrator of Barbastro, Spain on 16 February 1946. He was transferred to diocese of Albacete on 13 May 1950. He attended the Second Vatican Council in Rome. He was promoted to metropolitan see of Pamplona by Pope Paul VI on 23 July 1968.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio in the consistory of April 28, 1969 by Pope Paul. He was appointed as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship on February 20, 1971. He resigned the pastoral government of archdiocese on 4 December 1971. Pope Paul appointed him as Prefect of Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes on 8 September 1973. He died in 1975 in Rome.